Follow up on BitDepth 578
30/05/07 18:33 Filed in: Technology
Last
week's column
on the final dispensation of an
e-mail address that I've used for more than a decade triggered
reminiscing from Gregory Mohammed, still an Opus Networx
user...
"I'm sure Peter will smile at the coulmn you wrote in today's Guardian G-Life section.
Not because you mentioned him or Opus Networx, but because he may have a solution for you. Just like the good old days of Opus' BBS (I, too, was an early adopter) he has come up with a foolproof solution to the deluge of spam, which is employed as Opus' in-house spam cleaner.
I urge you to email him at help@opus.co.tt to get some ideas about protecting your current new domain before the eventual deluge appears.
Good Article, btw (although I'm not sure if we dialed to B'dos via Opus to exchange emails; I know I dialed California for @neal-and-massy.com via UUCP back in the days, and we used the same MajorBBS product that Opus did)."
Thanks to Gregory and to Peter Wimbourne, who corrected my faulty memory on the way e-mail worked in the earliest days of T&T connectivity to the Internet.
Gordon Gonsalves wrote in with a suggestion for hiding e-mail addresses using a website that turns the URL into ASCII code, readable by an HTML interpreter like a web browser but is gibberish to a spambot trawling for useable web addresses.
You can find that page here...
Mercifully, except for any instances where I might have inadvertently left an active e-mail address in a BitDepth column, the software I'm currently using to build this website, Rapidweaver, allows me to have a contact page without putting my web address out there in any readable form.
"I'm sure Peter will smile at the coulmn you wrote in today's Guardian G-Life section.
Not because you mentioned him or Opus Networx, but because he may have a solution for you. Just like the good old days of Opus' BBS (I, too, was an early adopter) he has come up with a foolproof solution to the deluge of spam, which is employed as Opus' in-house spam cleaner.
I urge you to email him at help@opus.co.tt to get some ideas about protecting your current new domain before the eventual deluge appears.
Good Article, btw (although I'm not sure if we dialed to B'dos via Opus to exchange emails; I know I dialed California for @neal-and-massy.com via UUCP back in the days, and we used the same MajorBBS product that Opus did)."
Thanks to Gregory and to Peter Wimbourne, who corrected my faulty memory on the way e-mail worked in the earliest days of T&T connectivity to the Internet.
Gordon Gonsalves wrote in with a suggestion for hiding e-mail addresses using a website that turns the URL into ASCII code, readable by an HTML interpreter like a web browser but is gibberish to a spambot trawling for useable web addresses.
You can find that page here...
Mercifully, except for any instances where I might have inadvertently left an active e-mail address in a BitDepth column, the software I'm currently using to build this website, Rapidweaver, allows me to have a contact page without putting my web address out there in any readable form.
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